Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring ne...w life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them.... Smug in our certain awareness that ... communal life must be more difficult even than nuclear family life, which we know, to our very nerve endings, is disastrous, we condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakeable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money- bitten, frightened, adult lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that t...hey forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, ...but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their min...ds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, non...e of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »